meeps wrote:I thought of ZZ Tops, when I saw Johnny's beard in the 21 Jump Street movie And then, when he got it off, he was ever so cute underneath But I actually came here to show you this article explaining about the trailer: So sorry, if this should have been posted some other place, and also for the article NOT mentioning Johnny at all

Meeps!

Certainly a lot to take in. Glad to have all these wizard experts online to explain this.

I wonder how the Fantastic Beast films play to audience members who aren't familiar with the Harry Potter series. There is so much that would be hard to understand coming in "cold" to the wizzarding world! I have read all the HP books and I still had trouble following things.

meeps wrote:I thought of ZZ Tops, when I saw Johnny's beard in the 21 Jump Street movie And then, when he got it off, he was ever so cute underneath But I actually came here to show you this article explaining about the trailer: So sorry, if this should have been posted some other place, and also for the article NOT mentioning Johnny at all

Meeps!

Certainly a lot to take in. Glad to have all these wizard experts online to explain this.

I wonder how the Fantastic Beast films play to audience members who aren't familiar with the Harry Potter series. There is so much that would be hard to understand coming in "cold" to the wizzarding world! I have read all the HP books and I still had trouble following things.

I would imagine that most people going to see it would already be familiar with the Harry Potter films and that world, not sure why you would see it otherwise.

Certainly a lot to take in. Glad to have all these wizard experts online to explain this.

I wonder how the Fantastic Beast films play to audience members who aren't familiar with the Harry Potter series. There is so much that would be hard to understand coming in "cold" to the wizzarding world! I have read all the HP books and I still had trouble following things.

I would imagine that most people going to see it would already be familiar with the Harry Potter films and that world, not sure why you would see it otherwise.

Johnny still has devoted fans out there. I think he still brings in a certain audience that might not be familiar with Harry Potter.

nebraska wrote:I wonder how the Fantastic Beast films play to audience members who aren't familiar with the Harry Potter series. There is so much that would be hard to understand coming in "cold" to the wizzarding world! I have read all the HP books and I still had trouble following things.

I would imagine that most people going to see it would already be familiar with the Harry Potter films and that world, not sure why you would see it otherwise.

Johnny still has devoted fans out there. I think he still brings in a certain audience that might not be familiar with Harry Potter.

True but I imagine many of them are familiar with the books or films or both.

Yes there was that piece in the Sun - an opinion piece. He was actually really gunning for JK Rowling whom people like him hate because she has become such a leading and respected liberal and she won't stop saying political things (anti-Brexit, anti-Trump and very recently calling out the Labour Party for not being tough enough on anti-Semitism). You know I always have to find the good side of bad stuff about him - so heartening to read the comments both on twitter and to the newspaper itself laying out the facts. Much as I hate the fact that the narrative around Johnny is so tied up to that awful women and I wish his fans could stop being defined by it - those sorts of comments are so vital because people do read them (and indeed it it largely why those opinion writers write such one sided material - to show they have 'traffic' and therefore are relevant).

And then I continue to love JK Rowling because she is so smart in how she send messages. She 'liked' a tweet yesterday by someone who posted that Grindelwald and Dumbledore met much earlier that JK Rowling has told us - and showed a picture from Sleepy Hollow - which has a number of Harry Potter franchise actors in it. The girl who tweeted it must be so excited- she only has 513 follows but she got 2.3k likes (and an thumbs up from JKR). Nice. The kind of thing twitter SHOULD be used for.

Could you share your experience with us? What did they show for footage?

Sure, started with a scene where Dumbledore taught Newt how to deal with boggarts. Newt’s was working in an office. Lots of fresh footage, plenty of returning faces, and a lot more Grindelwald. Depp owns the trailer.Final few shots see Dumbledore tell Newt that he can’t face Gellart and he gives Newt the responsibility of dealing with him. We see a wicked shot of Grindelwald wreaking havoc. It ends with Newt & Jacob meeting Nicolas Flamel, which was a very cool reveal.

Is that true that Grindelwald will drive sleigh @KingPatel7 ??

Yes, he does. I *think* he had three horses (or something similar), but can't remember exactly? It's the next-to-last shot in the trailer, happens at night, and it looks really cool.